Alexzander
@Alexzander
443 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Jeffrey
@Jeffrey -
about 5 years ago
Uber Lays Off 350 More Employees in Latest Blood Sacrifice
Uber Lays Off 350 More Employees in Latest Blood SacrificeAccording to a letter sent by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, about 350 more staffers at the not-a-cab company are being laid off across multiple departments, marking its third major round of layoffs in about as many m...continued
2 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Jeffrey
@Jeffrey -
about 5 years ago
Never Trust a Platform to Put Privacy Ahead of Profit
Twitter Puts Profit Ahead of User Privacy—Just Like Facebook Did BeforeAt this point, it's painfully unsurprising to hear new examples of tech companies misusing customer data. But a particularly shameful version of the story has become increasingly common: services pulli...continued
5 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Kari
@Kari -
about 5 years ago
Trump Family Considers Selling Hotel in Washington
Trumps Put Their Washington Hotel on the MarketWASHINGTON — It is the most visible and potent symbol of the ethics debate that has dogged President Trump as he has served simultaneously as the nation’s chief executive and real estate developer with a chain of luxury hotel...continued
2 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Marlon
@Marlon -
about 5 years ago
Can desert greenhouses resolve food security time bomb?
Can desert greenhouses deliver food security?The three-year-old start-up is aiming for nothing less than a transformation of the agriculture industry, and to resolve the growing threat to food security that faces the UAE.The company, founded in 2016, has already establish...continued
4 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Hannah
@Hannah -
about 5 years ago
Facebook's Business Falls Under the Microscope of 47 Attorneys General
Facebook Under Investigation by 47 Attorneys GeneralForty-seven state attorneys general have now joined a sweeping investigation into Facebook’s business practices aimed at determining whether the company has engaged in anti-competitive behavior, ignored privacy laws, or ...continued
4 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Hannah
@Hannah -
about 5 years ago
WeWork Founder Given $1.7 Billion to LeaveWork
WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Given $1.7 Billion to LeaveWorkFormer WeWork CEO Adam Neumann is reportedly set to make a stupid amount of money in a deal meant to help the business he co-founded stay afloat.The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that after WeWork was prese...continued
4 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Garnet
@Garnet -
about 5 years ago
Evolution of Speech Recognition Technology
Communication plays an essential role in our lives. Humans started with signs, symbols, and then made progress to a stage, where they began communicating with languages. Later computing and communication technologies came. Machines began communicating with humans and in s...continued
8 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Casper
@Casper -
about 5 years ago
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?This week for our interview series on The Vergecast, host and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Gigi Sohn, a distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy. We’ve had Gigi on...continued
12 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Giles
@Giles -
about 5 years ago
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow – TechCrunchDatabricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open-source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the comp...continued
3 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Manley
@Manley -
about 5 years ago
Squarespace acquires social media authoring startup Unfold
Squarespace acquires social media authoring startup Unfold – TechCrunchOver the past year or two, Squarespace has been expanding beyond website-building with new products like email marketing and its first acquisition (of an online scheduling tool) .Today, it’s announcing...continued
2 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Bobby
@Bobby -
about 5 years ago
Late Night Assures Trump He’s No George Washington
Late Night Assures Trump He’s No George Washington“[Imitating Trump] Washington — not everybody knows this — Washington put his picture on every dollar. Can you imagine the royalties? He got a taste of that. Daddy got his beak wet on every dollar. Not much, but it adds up...continued
1 minute read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Geovany
@Geovany -
about 5 years ago
Veteran enterprise exec Bob Stutz is heading back to SAP
Veteran enterprise exec Bob Stutz is heading back to SAP – TechCrunchBob Stutz has had a storied career with enterprise software companies, including stints at Siebel Systems, SAP, Microsoft and Salesforce. He announced on Facebook last week that he’s leaving his job as h...continued
3 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Devin
@Devin -
about 5 years ago
Skyrocket Your Instagram Marketing with Business Tips
Top Instagram Marketing Tips for BusinessHere is a question for you: Are you getting enough results from your Instagram marketing? Instagram has unlimited opportunities for savvy and hardworking marketers. Unfortunately, only about 10% or less of marketers use Instagram t...continued
5 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Bobby
@Bobby -
about 5 years ago
Ford and Holoride bring in-car virtual reality to the masses - Roadshow
Ford and Holoride bring in-car virtual reality to the massesHoloride began its pursuit of redefining in-car entertainment with Audi earlier this year. A new partnership with Porsche blossomed just last month. This week, Ford is the latest to work with Holoride, but in a p...continued
2 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Assunta
@Assunta -
about 5 years ago
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Educate Our Tech-Illiterate Congress
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Educate Our Tech-Illiterate CongressSenator Elizabeth Warren has joined a small but steady chorus of Washington lawmakers working to revive a little-known government agency that, not so long ago, helped members of Congress grasp how cutting-...continued
5 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
about 5 years ago
Timing Technology
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media LabWhile reading “Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the ‘ARPA Model’”, Azoulay et al 2018, on DARPA, I noticed an interesting comment:The two Goldstein & Kearney 2018 papers sounded interesting but alas...continued
31 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Marjory
@Marjory -
about 5 years ago
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For Sale
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For SaleAfter debuting just shy of two years ago, Boston Dynamics has finally made its Spot robotic dog available for sale, but don’t expect to find a great Black Friday deal on this bot at Best Buy come Thanksgiving....continued
3 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Jarod
@Jarod -
about 5 years ago
Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology
Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology / Boing BoingBerkeley has joined the swelling ranks of cities (pioneered by nearby Oakland) that have passed ordinances banning the government's use of facial recognition technology, after a unan...continued
2 minutes read
Alexzander
@Alexzander -
about 5 years ago
Here’s how science fiction could save us from bad technology
Here's how science fiction could save us from bad technologyThe short film “Slaughterbots” depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for their political beliefs. Released in November 2017 by academics and activists warning of th...continued
6 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Minnie
@Minnie -
about 5 years ago
U.S. Military Will Stop Using Floppy Discs to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons System
Military to Stop Using Floppy Disks to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons SystemThe systems used to control the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons rely on outdated computers. But the Department of Defense is updating at least one part of the archaic technology—the floppy d...continued
3 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Giovanni
@Giovanni -
about 5 years ago
Arianna Huffington on Quest to Create the Methadone of Tech
Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global Acquires Boundless MindsAriana Huffington left Huffington Post in 2016 to create Thrive Global—a confounding venture that aims to help people reduce stress and burnout by taking control of their relationship with technology. Three years ...continued
5 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Madalyn
@Madalyn -
about 5 years ago
Berkeley Becomes Fourth U.S. City to Ban Face Recognition in Unanimous Vote
Berkeley Becomes Fourth U.S. City to Ban Face Recognition in Unanimous VoteBerkeley, California became the fourth U.S. city to pass a ban on all government use of facial recognition technology on Tuesday night following a unanimous yes vote by the City Council.Two other c...continued
4 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Leda
@Leda -
about 5 years ago
Amazon Is Marketing Face Recognition to Police Departments Partnered With Ring: Report
Amazon Pushing Rekognition Face Recognition to Police With Ring PartnershipsAmazon is marketing its facial recognition software to Florida police departments that are currently partnered with its home surveillance company, Ring—arrangements that allow police to request ac...continued
6 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Jeffrey
@Jeffrey -
about 5 years ago
Yet another company has been hit by a ransomware attack
Yet another company has been hit by a ransomware attackThis time the victim was Pitney Bowes, a technology company based out of Stamford, Connecticut that provides ecommerce, shipping, data and mailing services.The company confirmed the attack on its website and is curren...continued
4 minutes read
Alexzander upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Webster
@Webster -
about 5 years ago
Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India
Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India – TechCrunchIndia’s Flipkart is entering the food retail business as the e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation, its chief executive said on Tuesday.Flipkart, which sold majorit...continued
3 minutes read